Hanni Liang

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Hanni Liang (2015) at the Guotai Arts Center, Chongqing

Hanni Liang (born July 18, 1993 in Bielefeld , Germany ) is a German-Chinese pianist .

Life

Hanni Liang grew up in a family of non-musicians and received her first piano lessons at the age of eight from Marina Kheifets at the Subito music school in Düsseldorf . As a young student she was accepted into the piano class of Barbara Szczepanska at the Robert Schumann University .

In 2010 she was named Young Steinway Artist and received the Steinway Sponsorship Award. She has also been a Tonali scholarship holder since 2013 . She received other sponsorship awards a. from the Dörken Foundation, the Westphalian Cultural Work Society, Bechstein, the Richard Wagner Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation .

In 2016 she began to study with Professor Matthias Kirschnereit . In the same year she founded the non-profit artist agency “Tonalisten”, which promotes young musicians, together with Tonali (a cultural project based in Hamburg) and Harrison Parrott (Sabine Frank).

In 2017 Liang made her debut at the Ruhr Piano Festival and has played regularly at the festival since then. She gave concerts in Austria, China, Spain, Italy, Russia and Poland, where she performed at the international Chopin Festival in Warsaw, at the Tianjin Piano Festival, in the Forbidden City Concert Hall Beijing, Qintai Concert Hall Wuhan, in the Mariinsky Theater or in Trans- Siberian Art Festival performed. She also travels to Switzerland to perform and to excellent music festivals in Germany, such as the Ruhr Piano Festival , Kissinger Sommer , Best of NRW, Schumannfest and the tidal concerts .

Hanni Liang made her debut in the Elbphilharmonie with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen in 2018 .

She works with pianists such as Maria João Pires , Matthias Kirschnereit , Homero Francesch , and the composer Manfred Trojahn , whose melodrama "Missed Opportunities", Prelude No. 7 and "Leise Gondeln" she premiered. She received further musical influences from John Perry, Jacques Rouvier and Bernd Goetzke .

Discography

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Wallerang: Hanni Liang: Found happiness at the age of 16. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. December 3, 2009, accessed March 23, 2016 .

2. Jonas Schlömer: "Missed Opportunities" premiered in Duisburg In: WAZ. July 16, 2017, accessed March 20, 2019.

3. Thomas Klingebiel: Young pianist from Bielefeld plays at the Ruhr Piano Festival In: Neue Westfälische. July 14, 2017, accessed March 20, 2019

4. Ingo Hoddick: Two who always miss each other In: RP Online. July 18, 2017, accessed March 20, 2019

personal data
SURNAME Liang, Hanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Chinese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld , Germany